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Sec Wilson repts no combat craft cutbacks; says USAF curbed orders for future delivery
Judge Leibowitz scores Estimate Bd dissension on issue
foe apparently checked; SKs fight to regain Finger Ridge; recapture Christmas Hill; thrown off 5 surrounding hills; enemy captures Anchor Hill; UN tanks shelled near Jackson Hts; map
Douglas weighs pleas by Rosenbergs lawyers for execution stay and Farmer-D G Marshall plea for habeas corpus writ; Farmer-Marshall arguments are that Greenglass was denied open trial, that Atomic Energy Act applies in case, that secret testimony taken at trial was not shown to Sup Ct, that death sentence was illegally imposed; Douglas delays ruling; Rev Ridout, Dean Loomer, Rabbi Cronbach and Rev Dr Dahlberg plead with Eisenhower; doubt he will commute sentence; Bloch files exec clemency plea; Poland offers asylum for Rosenbergs; State Dept holds offer impertinent
Gov Dewey announces members of 11-man temporary comm to study judicial system-reorgn; stresses need for modern system; appts 7; H Tweed chmn, L M Loeb vice chmn; 4 apptd by Legis; Tweed statement
1953Vernon Coaker, English educator and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence[â ]
Vernon Rodney Coaker, Baron Coaker is a British politician and life peer serving as Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Gedling from 1997 to 2019.
1953Juan Muñoz, Spanish sculptor and storyteller (died 2001)[â ]
Juan Muñoz was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze. He was also interested in the auditory arts and created compositions for the radio. He was a self-described "storyteller". In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes in recognition of his work; he died shortly after, in 2001.
1953Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.[â ]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[â ]